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Comptia Project + Project Management

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Requests to expand or reduce the project scope - modify policies - processes - plans or procedures - modify costs or budgets - or revise schedules






2. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






3. Describes how the project management team will implement the performing organizations quality plan.






4. Type of procurement document used to request price quotations from prospective sellers of common or standard products or services






5. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project






6. Directing - managing - performing and accomplishing the project work - providing the deliverables and providing work performance information






7. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






8. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






9. Skilled human resources - equipment - services - supplies - commodities - material - budgets or funds






10. Budgeted cost of work scheduled






11. Document used to record and describe or denote selected items identified during execution of a process or activity






12. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities






13. Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the projects future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance






14. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






15. Processes concerned with conducting risk management planning - identification - analysis - responses and monitoring and control on a project






16. Float (total float - free float)






17. A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome. usually applied to project costs - resources - effort and durations.






18. Launching a process that can result in the authorization of a new project






19. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






20. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






21. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






22. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






23. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






24. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






25. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






26. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project






27. A point in time associated with schedule activity's completion.






28. The aggregate of things used by an organization in any undertaking such as equipment - apparatus - tools - machinery - gear - material.






29. Any item - internal or external - that is required by a process before that process proceeds






30. Category or rank used to distinguish items that have the same functional use but do not share the same requirements for quality






31. Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






32. Reviewing all change requests - approving changes - and managing changes to the deliverables - organizational process assets - project documents and project management plan






33. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






34. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






35. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






36. Authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






37. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






38. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






39. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






40. Calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle






41. The amount of funds - budget - or time needed above the estimate to reduce the risk of overruns of project objectives to a level acceptance to the organization






42. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed on a project or a work breakdown structure component or a schedule activity. the total planned value for the project






43. Expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work breakdown structure component or project.






44. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






45. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts






46. Improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project performance






47. Schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end






48. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining






49. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






50. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers